Oberwolfach Reports: Recent submissions

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    • 1519 - Cohomology of Finite Groups: Interactions and Applications 

      [OWR-2015-24] Workshop Report 2015,24 (2015) - (03 May - 09 May 2015)
      The cohomology of finite groups is an important tool in many subjects including representation theory and algebraic topology. This meeting was the fourth in a series that has emphasized the interactions of group cohomology ...

    • 1518 - Tropical Aspects in Geometry, Topology and Physics 

      [OWR-2015-23] Workshop Report 2015,23 (2015) - (26 Apr - 02 May 2015)
      The workshop Tropical Aspects in Geometry, Topology and Physics was devoted to a wide discussion and exchange of ideas between the leading experts representing various points of view on the subject. The development of ...

    • 1517a - Multivariate Splines and Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2015-21] Workshop Report 2015,21 (2015) - (19 Apr - 25 Apr 2015)
      Multivariate splines are effective tools in numerical analysis and approximation theory. Despite an extensive literature on the subject, there remain open questions in finding their dimension, constructing local bases, and ...

    • 1517b - Mirror Symmetry, Hodge Theory and Differential Equations 

      [OWR-2015-22] Workshop Report 2015,22 (2015) - (19 Apr - 25 Apr 2015)
      The following is the report on the Oberwolfach workshop Mirror Symmetry, Hodge Theory and Differential Equations (April 2015), which brought together researchers from various areas such as quantum cohomology, complex ...

    • 1516b - Copulae: On the Crossroads of Mathematics and Economics 

      [OWR-2015-20] Workshop Report 2015,20 (2015) - (12 Apr - 18 Apr 2015)
      The central focus of the workshop was on copula theory as well as applications to multivariate stochastic modelling. The programme was intrinsically interdisciplinary and represented areas with much recent progress. The ...

    • 1516a - Mathematical Theory of Water Waves 

      [OWR-2015-19] Workshop Report 2015,19 (2015) - (12 Apr - 18 Apr 2015)
      The water-wave problem is the study of the two- and three-dimensional flow of a perfect fluid bounded above by a free surface subject to the forces of gravity and surface tension. From a mathematical viewpoint, the water-wave ...

    • 1515 - Representations of Finite Groups 

      [OWR-2015-18] Workshop Report 2015,18 (2015) - (05 Apr - 11 Apr 2015)
      The workshop Representations of Finite Groups was organised by Joseph Chuang (London), Meinolf Geck (Stuttgart), Markus Linckelmann (London), and Gabriel Navarro (Valencia). It covered a wide variety of aspects of the ...

    • 1514 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: The Kadison-Singer Conjecture 

      [OWR-2015-17] Workshop Report 2015,17 (2015) - (29 Mar - 04 Apr 2015)
      The solution to the Kadison–Singer conjecture used techniques that intersect a number of areas of mathematics. The goal of this Arbeitsgemeinschaft was to bring together people from each of these fields to support interactions ...

    • 1513 - Subfactors and Conformal Field Theory 

      [OWR-2015-16] Workshop Report 2015,16 (2015) - (22 Mar - 28 Mar 2015)
      Connections between subfactor theory and conformal field theory have been expected since the early days of the former in 1980’s, and recently we see more and more evidence for deeper relations. It was our aim to attract ...

    • 1512 - Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2015-15] Workshop Report 2015,15 (2015) - (15 Mar - 21 Mar 2015)
      The workshop covered a broad variety of areas in algebraic geometry and was the occasion to report on recent advances and works in progress. Special emphasis was put on the role of derived categories and various stability ...

    • 1511 - Homotopy Theory 

      [OWR-2015-14] Workshop Report 2015,14 (2015) - (08 Mar - 14 Mar 2015)
      This workshop was a forum to present and discuss the latest results and ideas in algebraic topology and homotopy theory, with a special emphasis on connections to other branches of mathematics, such as algebraic geometry, ...

    • 1510 - Discrete Differential Geometry 

      [OWR-2015-13] Workshop Report 2015,13 (2015) - (01 Mar - 07 Mar 2015)
      This is the collection of extended abstracts for the 26 lectures and the open problem session at the fourth Oberwolfach workshop on Discrete Differential Geometry.

    • 1509 - Control Theory: A Mathematical Perspective on Cyber-Physical Systems 

      [OWR-2015-12] Workshop Report 2015,12 (2015) - (22 Feb - 28 Feb 2015)
      Control theory is an interdisciplinary field that is located at the crossroads of pure and applied mathematics with systems engineering and the sciences. Recently the control field is facing new challenges motivated by ...

    • 1508c - Mini-Workshop: Deformation Quantization: between formal to strict 

      [OWR-2015-11] Workshop Report 2015,11 (2015) - (15 Feb - 21 Feb 2015)
      The philosophy of deformation was proposed by Bayen, Flato, Fronsdal, Lichnerowicz, and Sternheimer in the seventies and since then, many developments occurred. Deformation quantization is based on such a philosophy in ...

    • 1508a - Mini-Workshop: Ideals of Linear Subspaces, Their Symbolic Powers and Waring Problems 

      [OWR-2015-9] Workshop Report 2015,9 (2015) - (15 Feb - 21 Feb 2015)
      It is a fundamental challenge for many problems of significant current interest in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra to understand symbolic powers I(m) of homogeneous ideals I in polynomial rings, particularly ...

    • 1508b - Mini-Workshop: Coideal Subalgebras of Quantum Groups 

      [OWR-2015-10] Workshop Report 2015,10 (2015) - (15 Feb - 21 Feb 2015)
      Coideal subalgebras of quantized enveloping algebras appear naturally if one considers quantum group analogs of Lie subalgebras. Examples appear in the theory of quantum integrable systems with boundary and in harmonic ...

    • 1507b - Mini-Workshop: Discrete p-Laplacians: Spectral Theory and Variational Methods in Mathematics and Computer Science 

      [OWR-2015-7] Workshop Report 2015,7 (2015) - (08 Feb - 14 Feb 2015)
      The p-Laplacian operators have a rich analytical theory and in the last few years they have also offered efficient tools to tackle several tasks in machine learning. During the workshop mathematicians and theoretical ...

    • 1507a - Mini-Workshop: Modern Applications of s-numbers and Operator Ideals 

      [OWR-2015-6] Workshop Report 2015,6 (2015) - (08 Feb - 14 Feb 2015)
      The main aim of this mini-workshop was to present and discuss some modern applications of the functional-analytic concepts of s-numbers and operator ideals in areas like Numerical Analysis, Theory of Function Spaces, ...

    • 1507c - Mini-Workshop: Singularities in G2-geometry 

      [OWR-2015-8] Workshop Report 2015,8 (2015) - (08 Feb - 14 Feb 2015)
      All currently known construction methods of smooth compact G2-manifolds have been tied to certain singular G2-spaces, which in Joyce’s original construction are G2-orbifolds and in Kovalev’s ...

    • 1506 - Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics 

      [OWR-2015-5] Workshop Report 2015,5 (2015) - (01 Feb - 07 Feb 2015)
      The 2015 Oberwolfach meeting “Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics” was organized by Gil Kalai (Jerusalem), Isabella Novik (Seattle), Francisco Santos (Santander), and Volkmar Welker (Marburg). It covered a wide variety ...